Strong H1086בָּלָה
to become old
- Transliteration
- bâlâh
- Pronunciation
- baw-law'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to fail; by implication to wear {out} decay (causatively {consume} spend): - {consume} enjoy {long} become ({make} wax) {old} {spend} waste.
Detailed definition
1) to wear out, become old
1a) (Qal) to wear out
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to wear out
1b2) to wear out by use, use up completely
1b3) to enjoy, use to the full
Aramaic equivalent: be.la (בְּלָא "to wear out" H1080)
1a) (Qal) to wear out
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to wear out
1b2) to wear out by use, use up completely
1b3) to enjoy, use to the full
Aramaic equivalent: be.la (בְּלָא "to wear out" H1080)
In the Bible
Strong H1086 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wax5
- old2
- become1
- consume1
- consumeth1
- enjoy1
- make1
- spend1
- waste1
- waxen1
First verses
- Genesis 18:12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- Deuteronomy 8:4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 29:5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
- Joshua 9:13And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
- 1 Chronicles 17:9Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
- Nehemiah 9:21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
- Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
- Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
- Psalms 102:26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
- Isaiah 50:9Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
- Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
- Isaiah 65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
- Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.